CVE-2017-18001

Trustwave Secure Web Gateway (SWG) through 11.8.0.27 allows remote attackers to append an arbitrary public key to the device's SSH Authorized Keys data, and consequently obtain remote root access, via the publicKey parameter to the /sendKey URI.

• CWE-306

• http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2017/Dec/88Exploit, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
• https://blogs.securiteam.com/index.php/archives/3550Exploit, Third Party Advisory
• https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/44047/
• https://www.trustwave.com/Resources/Trustwave-Software-Updates/Important-Security-Update-for-Trustwave-Secure-Web-Gateway/Vendor Advisory
• http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2017/Dec/88Exploit, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
• https://blogs.securiteam.com/index.php/archives/3550Exploit, Third Party Advisory
• https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/44047/
• https://www.trustwave.com/Resources/Trustwave-Software-Updates/Important-Security-Update-for-Trustwave-Secure-Web-Gateway/Vendor Advisory

Published

Dec 31, 2017

Last Modified

Jun 17, 2026

Status

Modified

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